Tag: food

  • Webinar: Are GMOs 2.0 in your food and cosmetics?

    Webinar: Are GMOs 2.0 in your food and cosmetics?

    Movements & Emerging Technologies Webinars present: Are GMOs 2.0 in your food and cosmetics? An introduction to synthetic biology for shoppers Companies are sneaking new GMO foods into our food and cosmetics: gene-silenced apples, a GMO potato, synthetic biology flavors and fragrances are on their way to market, or already there — and they may […]

  • GMOs 2.0: A New Generation Of Fake Food And Fake Promises

    GMOs 2.0: A New Generation Of Fake Food And Fake Promises

    by Jim Thomas (HuffPost) Would you put these items on your shopping list? Gene-silenced apples that don’t rot; synthetic vanilla made with genetically engineered yeast; canola, DNA edited to resist pesticides. These are just a few of the new genetically engineered products already making their way to a store near you. We call them GMOs […]

  • Webinar: Outsmarting Nature?

    Webinar: Outsmarting Nature?

    Movements & Emerging Technologies Webinars present: Outsmarting Nature? A webinar on Synthetic Biology for Crops and Agriculture What’s the role of synthetic biology in our food system and how does it relate to “climate-smart” agriculture? What are the costs and risks? Host: Tom Philpott Food & Agriculture Journalist with Mother Jones Expert: Pat Mooney Executive […]